Storage-battery plate.



PATENTED DEC. 24, 1907.

W. GARDINE R.

STORAGE BATTERY PLATE.

APPLICATION FILED APE. 26,-1906.

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a, l e" rinirnn srans ATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM GARDINER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO

COMMERCIAL STORAGE BATTERY CO., 0

ILLINOIS.

No. smear F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF STORAGE-BATTERY PLATE.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

Application filed April 26, 1906- Serial No. 313,778.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM GARDINER, citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Storage-Battery Plates very large surface and from which the liberated or generated gases are readily expelled,

and consists in the features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described and claime p Inthe accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a view in perspective partly in section of a storage battery plate constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary top. plan view of one of the cross bars or retainers for the active material employed in the device. Fig. 3 is a detail fragmentary transverse section on the line 3 3 of F 1. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail perspective view of one of the separating members disposed between the retainers for the active material. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary .detail side elevation on an enlarged scale showing a slightly modified form of construction. Fig. 6 is a fragmentary detail transverse section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

My said invention. comprises a storage battery plate consisting of two side bars A and B of lead which are cast in a mold in which the component parts of the battery plate are held, the said bars thus receiving the dovetail projections D at the ends of a solid bar E of lead and of intermediate re taining members hereinafter specified, said side bars A and B being thus firmly. held in proper relative position by the said bar E and retaining members, and serving at the same time to retain the latter in proper relative position. At intervals in said frame are disposed oblong receptacles F of lead, to

7 hold lead oxid or other suitable active material, the bottom of each tray being provided with small, regularly spaced lateral slots G through which the liqui" surrounding said plate finds its way into contact with the active material contained in said receptacle. Above and below each of said receptacles F is disposed a'thin strip H of an absorbent material such as paper, felt, or the like, and between the strips H which are disposed above andbelow two of the adjacent receptacles F is disposed what I will'term a toothed-rack I of any suitable material such, for instance, as wood, paper, or the like, the recesses between the teeth of said racks serving to permit more ready contact of the liquid with the active material employed in the device. It is not essential that the ab sorbent material shouldbe interposed between the plane face of the rack l, and the lower face of the receptacle F, as the rack may be placed in direct contact with the bottom of said receptacle F as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. Any corrugated surface may be substituted'for the toothed-face of said rack I and such corrugated surface is disposed downx'vardly to bear upon the strip H and resting upon the upper face of the receptacle F and permit the free flow of the contained active material, so that gases liberated or generated through the action of the liquid upon the active material, and finding its way through said upper strip H, will be readily liberated and thus prevent the forma tion of gas bubbles which have a tendency to protect the surface of the active material against the. action of the liquid.

In assembling a storage battery plate made in accordance with my invention, the

solid barE is first taken andupon it is placed a ra'ckI, then follows a strip H, a receptacle F, another strip H, another rack I, and so 011 until enough active material has been introduced. A top bar K similar to the bar E but provided, with the terminal projection L, is then placed in position and pressure is applied thereto to hold the assembled parts firmly in position. The partlyiformed plate is then placed in a suitable mold and the side bars A and B arecast in position surrounding thedovetailed projections D. Said side bars A and B have cast upon their ends inwardly extending projections J adapted to engagg the outer surfaces of said end bars E and and thus prevent the expanding of the assembled parts Whenthe pressure is removed;

In storage batteries the greatest trouble l spaced transverse bars constituting bottom usually encountered" is that the bubbles or 3 globules of gas generated or liberated by the 1 action of the liquid on the active material generally adhere to the surface of said active material and thus protect the same against This obviously the action of said liquid. greatly reduces the active area and is, there fore, very disadvantageous. In the con struction herein described the bubbles of generated or liberated gas can find no lodgment on the active surface, and consequently 1 will force their Way through the porous layers disposed above and below the receptacles Will, however, readily escape through the recesses between the teeth of the racks 1,-and thus find their Way out of the battery.

- I claim as my invention:.

1. A storage battery plate comprising a frame, a plurality of receptacles having -Hence they cannot interfere with the ac- .tion of the liquid on such actlve material and 1 can therefore do no harm. Such b'ubbles supports of the same, a plurality of dividing members having spaced transverse ribs, and sheets of absorbent material inter' osed between said receptacles and rigid p ates.

2. A storage-battery plate comprising a bar, a spacing-member mounted on said bar, a receptacle having a transversely slotted bottom and adapted to contain active material, and mounted on said spacing member,

an absorbent sheet mounted between each of said receptacles and said spacing-members, and a frame cast integral with each of said members after the same have been assembled, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I' have signed my name in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM GARDINER;

Vitnesses:

. E. F. WILsON,

JQHN M. HAAS. 

